Category Archives: Creationism and Intelligent Design
Irreducible complexity robotics
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Synthese News
This post will give updates of the boycott status and I will move it to the top when it is updated. Update: Mohan Matthen asks if we are increasingly finding legal intervention in academic publishing. PD Magnus withdraws a paper … Continue reading
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Paper withdrawn from Synthese
Massimo Pigliucci, head of the Philosophy Program at City University of New York, and Raphael Scholl from the Department of Philosophy at the University of Bern, have withdrawn a paper from Synthese. Here, with their permission, is the text of … Continue reading
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Pope on evolution: more of the same teleological thinking
Recently, the Pope did what religious leaders appear increasingly inclined to do on Easter: bash science: Benedict emphasised the Biblical account of creation in his Easter Vigil homily, saying it was wrong to think at some point “in some tiny … Continue reading
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Open thread on Synthese
This thread is for anyone to discuss the matter in anyway they like, so long as the Comment Rules (at left) are respected. I have closed comments on the other threads, but some think the issue needs more discussion. Also … Continue reading
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Us, them and the real issue
I think I need to clear the air a bit. In the Synthese posts I have been defending the authors of the special issue to which I contributed. Some may think this has to do with my agreeing with them. … Continue reading
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A boycott of Synthese
Brian Leiter has suggested a professional boycott of the journal Synthese until they admit their error in the disclaimer case, and I am the contact for messages supporting it from publishing philosophers. Leiter says: I would urge all philosophers to … Continue reading
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Did Synthese bow to Intelligent Design pressure?
A while back I published a paper in a special edition of Synthese on “Evolution and its rivals”. My paper was titled “Are Creationists Rational?” in which I argued that yes, in a bounded sense they are. I was very … Continue reading
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